Alexander (Alex) KEMPSTER

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KEMPSTER, Alexander

Service Numbers:	S14989, SX39678
Enlisted:	5 June 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4 Garrison Battalion (SA)
Born:	Bute, South Australia, 28 December 1906
Home Town:	Aldgate, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Schooling:	Hundred Ninnes School, South Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Gladstone, South Australia, 15 June 1967, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Gladstone Cemetery (SA) The South Australian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

5 Jun 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, S14989
15 Mar 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sapper, S14989, 4 Garrison Battalion (SA)
16 Mar 1944:	Involvement Private, S14989
16 Mar 1944:	Involvement Private, SX39678
16 Mar 1944:	Enlisted In The Field, SA
16 Mar 1944:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX39678
15 Jan 1946:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Alexander Kempster (Service Nos:S14989/SX39678) initially served in the ACMF as a Sapper with 3rd Field Coy and 4 Garrison Battalion from 5 June 1942 to 15 March 1944. Private Kempster was 'in the field' on 16 March 1944 when he enlisted in the AIF. Private Kempster served with 8 Docks Operating Coy on Thursday Island (1944); and Meauke and Wewak (1944/1945), and was Discharged on 15 January 1946.

Alex was born in Bute, South Australia in 1906, second of eight children of John (Jack) Alexander Kempster (b1872 at Magpie Creek, Clare, South Australia) and Ellen Weldon (b1877 at Keilli, Port Pirie, South Australia). Jack (a Labourer) and Ellen married in 1905 in Kadina, and lived in Bute, Wokurna, Wallaroo Mines, Brenda Park via Morgan and Mitcham, where Jack was a Labourer, Farm Hand and Woodcutter.

Alex worked as a Labourer, and was a Textile Worker in Mt Barker when he enlisted in the Army. In 1941 in Mt Barker, Alex married Myrtle Joyce Cann (b1918 in Adelaide, South Australia). Following his Discharge in 1946, Alex and Myrtle lived in Mt Barker, Adleiade and Gladstone, where they raised their family and Alex was a Lineman with the Postmaster General's Department. Alex died in 1967 and Myrtle in 2004.

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